A Quantile Regression Analysis of the Effect of Farmers’ Attitudes and Perceptions on Market Participation

Kostov, Phillip orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4899-3908 and Davidova, Sophia (2013) A Quantile Regression Analysis of the Effect of Farmers’ Attitudes and Perceptions on Market Participation. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 64 (1). pp. 112-132. ISSN 0021857X

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9552.2012.00366.x

Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate the subjective determinants of farmers’ participation in output markets in five EU New Member States (NMS) characterised by large semi-subsistence sectors. It employs quantile regression to model market participation reflecting the heterogeneity amongst farmers. The study also uses the Bayesian adaptive lasso to simultaneously select important covariates and estimate the corresponding quantile regression models. The empirical results show that only two variables affect all quantiles, while their effect varies across quantiles. Some of the remaining variables affect the share of output sold at the lower quantiles (i.e. for subsistence- and semi-subsistence-oriented farmers) only, whereas other variables are only significant at the upper quantiles (i.e. for more commercially oriented farms). Advisory services, and particularly agricultural business advice, and information and advice on markets and prices can facilitate the market participation of subsistence-oriented farms.


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